This residential area is currently experiencing a renaissance. It was created on the drawing board after nearly the entire area was destroyed in World War II. Its reconstruction became symbolic for a new Berlin, and star architects from around the world—including Alvar Alto, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, and Oscar Niemeyer—worked on this prestigious postwar Modernism project. Not long afterwards, Niemeyer worked on the Brazilian capital of Brasília—which also took shape on the drawing board.